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(Self)Critical Thinking: Toward A New Pedagogy Of Compostition And Literature, Brian R. Beamer

Dissertations

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Phalanx On A Hill: Responses To Fourierism In The Transcendentalist Circle, William Hall Brock

Dissertations

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A "Re-Vision" Of Selected American Women's Realist Novels, 1880-1917: Political And Psychological Issues Of Gender And Canonicity, Luann Swartzlander-Kraus

Dissertations

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Rejecting The Fruits Of Action: The Regeneration Of The Waste Land’S Legal System, Phillip J. Closius

All Faculty Scholarship

In his greatest work, The Waste Land, T. S. Eliot presents a picture of twentieth century Western civilization as a culture which has lost its essential values and has come undone from its historical moorings. Material wealth has become the focal point of society and its inhabitants. In such a value distorted context, human relationships are devoid of meaning. Honest communication and a meaningful life for the soul and intellect are lost in a dehumanizing daily grind. Religious, communal, and even familial values are subverted to a culturally encouraged drive for personal gain. In this respect, modern Western civilization in …

Promoting Attitude And Amount Of Leisure Reading By Selected Fourth Grade Students, Barbara Navin

Graduate Research Papers

In an effort to determine if media specialists can influence in a positive way the amount of leisure time reading elementary school students do, a study was designed which would test that hypothesis while involving students in two fourth grade classrooms, one of which was the control group and the other the experimental group. Specific activities such as booktalks, story and poetry breaks were performed only for the experimental group. This group also kept a list of books read in gaily decorated reading logs. Both groups kept a count of actual pages read, and actual books completed. Both groups were …

Tillie’S Christmas: Exposition Of A Children’S Book, Jeanne Anderson

Graduate Research Papers

TILLIE'S CHRISTMAS: EXPOSITION OF A CHILDREN'S BOOK, by Jeanne Anderson. In preparation for writing the children's book, Tillie's Christmas, this study explores the craft of writing in general, as well as the process of writing children's books in particular. Since the resulting book intentionally reflects Christmas traditions as celebrated by second-generation German immigrants on the Iowa prairie in 1900, this paper researches those customs. To confirm the commonality of such ethnic experiences on the Iowa prairie in 1900, several interviews with second-generation German immigrants are included in the study.

Development Of An English For Gospel Purposes Vocabulary List: The Latter-Day Saint Lexicon As A Second Language, Jennifer H. Burrill

Theses and Dissertations

This study sought to explore the non-native English-speaking LDS adult's comprehension of the English LDS lexicon. Stahle (1981) conducted a study of the LDS lexicon which established at least 249 words as "basic" vocabulary. The current study had two foci: it first sought to determine how difficult these words were in both English and Spanish for native Spanish-speaking LDS adults living in the U.S. To assess this, a dual-language vocabulary instrument was administered to 245 subjects from Texas, California, and Utah. Item Response Theory (IRT) analysis was used to calculate difficulty levels of words and these values were plotted two-dimensionally …

Miss Dickinson And Perverse Pubescent Prurience, Chris Crowe

Faculty Publications

Right then, sound, time, and my heart stopped while Lexi and I were transported to another dimension at the center of the universe.

Cut On The Norman Bias: Fabulous Borders And Visual Glosses On The Bayeax Tapestry, Daniel Terkla

Scholarship

Harold Godwinson, King of England for nine months in 1066, was undeniably an assertive opportunist - albeit a brave one -and perhaps a traitor; Edward the Confessor was a misguided monarch -or at least a bad judge of character-and William of Normandy was a righteous conqueror, a ruler asserting his legal right to the English crown. This, at least, is the interpretation of historical events presented by the Bayeux Tapestry, the late eleventh-century embroidery that Otto Pacht has called the ‘earliest work of secular art on a monumental scale which has survived from the Middle Ages.’3 In this study, I …

A Legacy Of Love, Jennifer Shurtleff '95

Honors Projects

The paper that I am presenting is a bit unconventional. It is a narrative and historical piece which tests many of the theoretical claims I have been studying over the past two years. I took three courses important to this work: one on the women pioneers who settled the American frontier, another on the relationship of gender to genre, and I am currently studying the creation of self in autobiography. After studying different theories on women writers and the experiences of women pioneers, I decided to test the things I had learned by writing my own story.

Grupo Ubú: El Edificio De La Identidad En Barriendo Sombras, Cesar Valverde

Scholarship

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Mentors: Keys To Survival And Growth, Chris Crowe

Faculty Publications

My diploma proved I knew English; my teaching certificate proved I knew how to teach it. Armed only with these and a head filled with idealistic visions of myself as the next Mr. Chips, I landed my first teaching job. As a mid-year graduate, I was lucky to flnd any high school job, so I jumped at the first, and only, offer. I started work on January 3, taking over for an established teacher who at mid-term had gone on permanent disability leave.

Paired Reading : An Investigation Into Using Parents As Tutors In One Mainstream High School, Miguel R. Fernandez

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

Contemporary research on reading has investigated the use of parents and peer tutors in assisting schools to improve reading accuracy and comprehension. Some of the techniques that have been used are Hearing Reading, Paired Reading, Shared Reading, Relaxed Reading, Pause, Prompt and Praise and Direct Instruction. Of these techniques, Direct Instruction and Paired Reading have been shown to be the most effective programs using parents within the primary school setting. However, many studies in Paired Reading research have lacked experimental data using parents as tutors in high schools. The aim of this paper was to assess the impact of Paired …

Michael North, The Political Aesthetic Of Yeats, Eliot, And Pound, Robert Spoo

Articles, Chapters in Books and Other Contributions to Scholarly Works

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Mary Mccarthy, Mary Gordon, And The Irish-American Literary Tradition, Stacey Lee Donohue

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

There is a distinct literary canon in the United States, composed of Irish-Catholic-American writers, which requires different modes of criticism or evaluation than other U.S. literatures, particularly the dominant, largely Protestant or Protestant-influenced, American literary canon. In addition, as a recently recognized literary tradition, many women writers have either been ignored or unnoticed because their works do not immediately fit into the evolving criteria of evaluation for the Irish-American literary tradition. My purpose in this study is not to survey the Irish-American literary canon, but to examine two women writers who have not always been admitted to an innately misogynistic …

The Treatment Of Voice In Some Of The Works Of Some Women Writers Of The Harlem Renaissance, Patrick Steven Bernard

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

This study examines the relation between the quest for identity-formation that characterized the Harlem Renaissance and the treatment of Voice by the women writers of the period to define their feminine identity. The concept of voice as used in this study refers to the method of self-expression and self-articulation to define the feminine subject by the women writers of the period. The importance of the Harlem Renaissance as a period of black self-determination is the main principle that is used here to particularize the feminine quest. The study looks at the Harlem Renaissance mainly from the perspective of the women …

Insanity As Escape: A Kristevan Reading Of Shirley Jackson’S Novels, Bess L. Fox

Honors Capstones

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Surrey (For Joan And Tony), Craig Williamson

English Literature Faculty Works

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Social Commentary In Three Novels By Edith Wharton, Michael A. Gillespie

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

A thesis presented to the faculty of the Caudill College of Humanities at Morehead State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts by Michael A. Gillespie on December 8, 1994.

Index 1 (1981-1994), Lawrence Wells

Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review

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A Study Of The Linguistic Semantic And Sociolinguistic Components Of The English Modal System, Jeffery Hutcheson

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

In this thesis I examine the linguistic, semantic and sociolinguistic components of the English modal system and the difficulty the system presents to both instructors and learners of English as a second language (ESL). The purpose of this study was to determine what these components are and how they affect communication. I begin by defining what modality is and how it is manifested in English. The focus is upon the one-word modals and not the phrasal modals; however, some phrasal modals are explicated when a contrast exists between the meaning of the one-word modal and its phrasal equivalent. After the …

1994 Forces, Peggy Brown

Forces

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Romancing Visual Women: From Canon To Console, Roberta Sabbath

English Faculty Research

This dissertation juxtaposes the romantic modal treatment of powerful, admired women which canonical male authors and feminist authors and critics construct with those constructed by contemporary women for the visual mass media of video, broadcast television, and computer. The discourse of the former produces the figure of a fragmented woman who is rare, supernatural, marginalized, and impossible. The discourse of the latter produces the figure of a psychologized woman who is typical, natural, mainstream, and possible. To examine the discourse of impossibility, I use three canonical works: Augustine's Confessions; Chretien de Troyes' Perceval; and Dante's Divine Comedy. I also survey …

Ruby Bayou, December 1994, Issue 2, Ruby Bayou Staff

Ruby Bayou

3.....MEDUSA ..... Kathryn Drury
4.....In Defense of Sororities .... Carolyn Mosca
6.....education ....Jennifer Murphy
7.....Yet Another Lesson In Diversity .... William Taylor
8.....Noteworthy quotes from Dorothy Sayer's address to a Women's Society, 1938, entitled "Are Women Human?"
9.....poetry by Seth Rostan
- Tree
- Jettisoned
- Lunch
- Party
10.....From the Editor's Space .... Jodi Perelman

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Professing Multiculturalism : The Politics Of Style In The Contact Zone., Min-Zhan Lu

Faculty and Staff Scholarship

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Strategies In Theodore Dreiser's Trilogy Of Desire To Resolve The Division Between The Material And The Spiritual, Claas Riese

Dissertations and Theses

A study of strategies and attempts in Theodore Dreiser's novels The Financier, The Titan and The Stoic to resolve the conflict between the material and the spiritual. The purpose of this thesis is to demonstrate that conflicts in Dreiser criticism reflect unresolved conflicts between these issues in his "Trilogy". Having outlined and shown the division in the literary criticism of the "Trilogy", in the first chapter of this thesis, I will discuss the three main themes, finance, art and women, which can be seen as strategies to bridge the division between the material and the spiritual. I will attempt to …

Poem No. 72, November 1994, Huntsville Literary Association (Huntsvile, Ala.)

POEM

The Huntsville Literary Association was founded in 1967 to provide a community for writers, readers, and artists through workshops, readings, and educational programs. One of their key contributions is the literary magazine titled POEM which showcases original writings from both established and emerging writers. This issue features poems from various writers.

Ruby Bayou, November 1994, Issue I, Womyn's Action Coalition

Ruby Bayou

3......From The Center for Reproductive Law and Policy
4...... As I was walking down the stairs...
5......blood of ancestors
6......Cultural Diversity: Theory vs. Application ..... William Taylor
8..... A collectio of poems by Aisha Bonner
- I Wish
- Untitled
- Before Now
- Neglecting You
9......Mindfuck: The Hidden Side of Sexual Violence .... Becky Mehring
11.... poetry by Greg Campbell
- In Honor of A One-night Stand
- Homosexual Angst Released
12.....FEMINISM 101

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Vol. 14, No. 4 (1994), John Egerton

Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review

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Revising Lives: Bernard Shaw And His Biographer, Sarah Wadsworth

English Faculty Research and Publications

Shaw's galley revisions of Archibald Henderson's 1932 biography, Bernard Shaw: Playboy and Prophet, reveal a unique collaboration between biographer and subject. The result is a subversion of biographical conventions, in which the assumed voice of the biographer lends credence and authority to the disguised voice of the subject.